> (2) I don't think many people are relying on this behavior. (Why > would you want to run "tail -f" on a pipe?)
Agreed. That does seem freaky. I can't think of a useful case for it. I can't think of a specific or concrete case right now, but `tail -f' on a pipe could be used on GNU/Hurd, in theory. Cheers. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils